Trust every democrat to make a big deal out of partially addressing a problem they helped create.
Ostensibly, and for the record: more FEMA reimbursements are "good" (if funding 30-40 years too late is considered good), but where were they during the Obama years when homelessness was exploding in LA?
Oh they didn't care? Cool.
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The 7 years of traumatic prep leading up to Rio 2016 saw:
-Mass displacement
-violent police occupations in favelas
-broken promises to clean up polluted waters
-crackdowns on houselessness + street vending
-rampant corruptions
-shuttered hospitals + schools
Nearly three years ago, on August 11, 2017, Los Angeles’ City Council voted to rubberstamp bringing the 2028 Olympics to LA.
“LA is not Rio!” Councilmember Joe Buscaino huffed in response to members of the public who suggested that hosting the Olympics maybe wasn’t a great idea
36 years ago the LA 84 Olympics opened, marking a new era of police militarization, the privatization of our city, and a violent removal of poor Black & Brown people from their communities.
The LA 84 Olympics were nothing short of a war on the poor.
Unhoused people were swept.
Black & Brown people were thrown in jail without due process. Councilmembers tried to throw the poor in drunk tanks.
Small businesses went bankrupt.
Public land was stolen.
Our broken hotel voucher system was created to disappear the poor.
Daryl Gates hypermilitarized the LAPD, training with the IDF + giving them all sorts of new Olympic death toys, which would pop up later in the decade in Operation Hammer etc.
The '84 Olympics helped directly create the conditions for the '92 Uprising.
If you want to understand how deeply incestuous and fundamentally illegitimate the LA political machine is, look no further than today's Community Safety Partnership vote at the LAPC today.
This morning at the LA Police Commission meeting, commissioners will plan to vote yes to accept $500k in funding for the LAPD’s CSP. The money will come from the LAPD’s private non-profit, the LA Police Foundation, funded by multi-national corporations and elite interests.
The Garcetti-appointed Police Commission has 5 members, and needs 3 votes for a quorum.
Join us at noon today for a twitter storm targeting the Police Commission, who's voting on Tuesday to give more money to the Community Safety Partnership, another deadly waste of funds.
We can yet again thank LA Olympic boosters for this bullshit.
Rick Caruso, LA 2028 booster/tacky Republican real estate mogul, helped fund the “assessment” of the LAPD’s “Community Safety Partnership” that came out in March 2020.
The research was led by two UCLA professors:
Jorja Leap, who is married to a former LAPD Deputy Chief, and Jeff Brantingham, who created LAPD’s former predictive policing program PredPol, and is a senior researcher/adviser at GRYD.